Letters and Art of Our America

This book represents an attempt to approach the unfathomable reality of Latin America through its rich literary and plastic heritage. Its author, Mercedes Suárez, is an enthusiastic student of literature, Spanish, and art from this part of the world. The fortunate combination of texts and stories with plastic representations by outstanding artists establishes a suggestive counterpoint of images and words, which turns reading this volume into a delightful experience.

It is a work that identifies a common cultural space to share the cultural diversity of our people. Plurality and difference that is often not easy to decipher, but that establishes the permanent challenge to coexistence and heritage valuation.

The attractiveness of this thematic anthology lies in the diversity of the American world and its literature, which should be very useful in the literary, sociological and anthropological classroom, where the themes and comments of the texts should encourage analysis, discussion and critical judgment.